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Sustainable Living, Gardening & Gallivanting

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  • ChickensGardeningHerbsPermacultureVegetable gardenVideos

    New videos – How to grow lots of food in a small space + chicken fun

    by Lala December 17, 2016
    by Lala December 17, 2016

    I hope everyone is having a pleasant and safe December. We’ve been busy visiting family, collecting new plants and of course working in the garden. I’ve managed to squeeze in…

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    This week in the garden – Blossoms, new beds & a beauty

    by Lala November 11, 2016
    by Lala November 11, 2016

    We’ve had a good week weather-wise. Pleasant days of cool mornings, hot around midday and the typical Highveld afternoon thunderstorms. The Vaal dam is still desperately under capacity and our…

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  • ChilliesGardening

    Success growing sweet mini peppers from supermarket fruit

    by Lala June 1, 2016
    by Lala June 1, 2016

    The mini sweet peppers I planted in December are doing great…some much better than others as you can see from the images below. I was inspired by a thread on…

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  • GardeningGiant pumpkinsVegetable gardenVideos

    Is tomorrow a record breaking SA Giant Pumpkin Weigh-In?

    by Lala March 4, 2016
    by Lala March 4, 2016

    2016 Weigh-In Day – Saturday the 5th of March. It’s here, TOMORROW is the 2016 Giant Pumpkin Weigh-in day. This article is brought to you by our friends from Living Seeds,…

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  • ChilliesHome OrchardVegetable garden

    Many surprises in the summer garden

    by Lala December 14, 2015
    by Lala December 14, 2015

    This afternoon was a very fruitful one in the front garden. Yesterday my father-in-law and our groundsman finished a small project to fence off a large strip of the front…

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  • GardeningGiant pumpkinsVegetable garden

    First giant pumpkin harvested

    by Lala February 17, 2015
    by Lala February 17, 2015

    The great pumpkin experiment has come to an end for this summer, due to the heatwave and a bout of mildew that I didn’t fix in time. It has been…

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  • GardeningGiant pumpkinsPermacultureVegetable garden

    How to: Grow giant pumpkins, part 2

    by Lala January 5, 2015
    by Lala January 5, 2015

    The Dill’s Atlantic Giants continue to do well. Our two main ones are about the size of soccerballs right now. We had to set up a protective barrier around one…

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  • GardeningGiant pumpkinsVegetable garden

    How to: Grow giant pumpkins, Part 1

    by Lala December 29, 2014
    by Lala December 29, 2014

    The giant pumpkin project started at the end of September 2014. After reading up on hugelkultur we set up a raised bed using some of its concepts. The bed didn’t…

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